作者
Angela Mailis-Gagnon, S Fatima Lakha, Ting Ou, Ada Louffat, Balaji Yegneswaran, Margarita Umana, Tea Cohodarevic, Keith Nicholson, Amol Deshpande
发表日期
2011/3/1
期刊
Canadian Family Physician
卷号
57
期号
3
页码范围
e97-e105
出版商
The College of Family Physicians of Canada
简介
Objective
To describe the characteristics of patients with chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) prescribed opioids by community physicians and referred to a tertiary pain clinic.
Design
Cross-sectional, descriptive study.
Setting
A tertiary care, hospital-based pain clinic in Toronto, Ont.
Participants
A total of 455 consecutive patients newly referred to the pain clinic by community physicians.
Main outcome measures
Data on demographic characteristics, pain ratings, and medication intake were obtained using standardized collection forms and retrospective chart review. Patients were classified by diagnosis: group 1 patients had biomedical disorders only, group 2 patients had biomedical disorders and psychological factors, and group 3 patients had psychological factors only. Patients were also categorized based on opioid use: no opioid use (NOU); low opioid use (LOU), with a daily morphine-equivalent dosage (MED …
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